Chapter 27 The Ritual Of Chüd
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All the losers stands in the middle holding hands. "The Ritual of Chüd, it's a battle of wills. The first step was our reunion. The second was the gathering of tokens. This is the final step."
The fire goes out in the blink of an eye, making them look down at it.
"What the..." Richie trails off and the writhing, radiant orange lights that are mysterious but very deadly and terrifying emerges from the top, making them look up.
"The f-fuck is that?" Bill steps back.
"It's the deadlights! Don't look at them!" Mike screams, shutting his eyes tightly.
Closing her eyes, Eleanor bites her lips nervously.
"Turn light into dark! Turn light into dark! Say it!" Mike demands.
"Say what?!" Eddie exclaims.
"Say it!" Mike yells again.
"Turn light into dark! Turn light into dark! Turn light into dark! Turn light into dark! Turn light into dark!" All of them keep shouting and chanting, trusting Mike's words with no hesitation.
"Turn light into dark!"
"Turn light into dark! Mike, what's happening, man?!" Richie shouts.
"Keep chanting it!"
The room goes pitch black, making the blonde hesitantly open her eyes.
"Turn light into dark! Is it working? Did we do it!" Eddie shouts while Mike grabs the lid, covering the equipment top. But something is stopping him. A red balloon.
"I guess this is a part of it?" Beverly asks nervously.
"Mike, is this suppose to be happening?" Richie asks as the baloon grows, preventing him from closing the lid completely.
"Keep chanting!" Mike says as he tries his best to hold the lid down. "Keep chanting!"
"Turn light into dark! Turn light into dark!
Turn light into dark!" They start to chant again, hoping this will come to an end soon. But it isn't that easily going down. The balloon grows and grows, causing Mike to lose his grip on the lid and fall back. The balloon is still blowing out of the artefact, making them all jump away from it.
"Come on." Bill grabs the blonde's arm, rushing out in between the spikes as the balloon continues to grow.
As always, she grips into his shirt jacket, utterly frightened of the situation as he holds her close to him. When the giant balloon grows up to its size, it pops, throwing them down the ground. Her ears start to ring, covering her ears.
"You guys okay?" Richie questions as Bill and Eleanor stand on their feet.
Bill rubs his ears. "I can't hear anything! I can't hear anything!"
"Where's Mike?" Eddie questions.
"Mike!" Ben calls out as they all look around for a glimpse of the black man.
"I'm right here! I'm here!" Mike says, joining them.
"Did we do it?" Eddie asks again.
"We put the tokens in the thing." Richie says. "That's good right?"
"We did it right?" Eddie repeats again, not getting an answer for his question.
Beverly flashes her flashlight around and then stops right on Pennywise, making them all jump back screaming in fear.
"Oh, did it work, Mikey? Did it?" Pennywise taunts, peering through the spikes, smirking evilly. "Tell them why your silly little ritual didn't work! Tell them it's all just a... what's the word, Eds? Gazebo?"
Eddie turns to Mike. "Mike, what's he talking about?"
"M-Mikey?" Bill stutters, looking at Mike for answers.
"Mikey, you never showed the full side, did you?" The killing clown laughs. "Didn't want them to know about the poor Shokopiwah?"
"Mike? Please tell that he's lying." Eleanor calls out through her shaky voice and Mike looks ashamed and avoids her gaze.
"Fuck Mikey, you lied to us again?" Bill yells in disbelief.
"They didn't believe that they could kill IT. That's why it didn't work back then!" Mike says as tears runs down his face.
"Are you fucking kidding me, Mike!"
"We hurt him!"
"Fuck!"
Eleanor's whole body is battling with both fear and disappointment while her head screams the way how we're going to end up as Pennywise's food.
"I needed something, anything for us to remember. Anything for us to believe!" Mike defends as Bill and Richie keep cursing when the deadlights rises up, into the air from the artefact.
"The deadlights! Don't look at them!" Beverly shouts.
"For 27 years... I dreamt of you..." Pennywise crawls out of its hiding place, laughing. "I craved you! Oh, I've missed you!"
The group back away from IT, except Mike who stands still.
"Waiting for this very moment!"
"Mike, run!" Eleanor yells as everyone else, but Mike doesn't move.
"Gotta move, Mikey!" Bill shouts.
"I'm sorry, guys... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Mike shakes his head as Pennywise makes it's way to him.
"Time to float!" The clown raises its hand, revealing many small hands grows out of it, before it turns to a sharp clawn.
"Oh shit!" Bill shouts and rushes to him, pushing Mike out of the way as IT is about to pierce him. They all help Mike and Bill up, starting to run as fast as they can, when the clown follows after them.
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